Ride

Zip up the jacket

Pull on the boots

Chin strap of helmet fastened securely 

The rumble as I take a seat and hold on

eyes closed tightly as we pull into traffic

Open your eyes I say to myself 

Feel and see what alive is

Trust and a bit of crazy rolled into one 

The wind through my hair 

The dopey smile plastered in my face. 

Sometimes it's not enough to mearly survive but to hold on tight and ride. 

Bucket List...

This is my entry in the Just Ask Bucket List Getaway Giveaway. Just Ask offers a breast and ovarian cancer screening and is encouraging people to share 15 things that I want to enjoy in my lifetime as a reminder to be aware of my health. Want to enter? Head over to TodaysMama.com to get the details. 

1. Become a midwife
2. Become a mother 
3. Be a foster/Adoptive parent
4. Return to the Philippines 
5. Return to Guatemala
6. Give back more than I recieve
7. Dance in the rain with my family
8. Harry Potter World (enough said!)
9. Buy a bookshelf (to get my 19 boxes of books up and out of the closet!) 
10. Swim in Lake Superior 
11. Sit on top of a mountain
12. Get novel published
13. Write a children's book
14. Visit a new place
15. Get Healthy